Creating a re-boot disk

platinum87 · 12 Mar 2008 at 12:52

ive been looking around but i dont seem to be able to find a non-buggy program. that will copy your hard-drive (just basic stuff) to a dvd disk.. but i need to be able to boot from the disk, click next a few times

, and then to have everything back to normal..

the reason for this is because i want to go back to Vista really, but i need to be able to get XP running, with updates installed/ settings quickly (re-installing/format process getting really booring)

thanks!

platinum87 · 13 Mar 2008 at 14:45

i tried this a while ago, there was some sort of glitch with acronis..

trying again now

platinum87 · 13 Mar 2008 at 16:14

ok ive created a backup image, "realbackup.tib" btw its 4.2GB with maximum compression but how do i put this on DVD, and be able to install it on a formatted HDD.?

the only option i see is create bootable rescue media, but that is like 46mb iso, which doesnt have the backup on it...

platinum87 · 14 Mar 2008 at 02:29

i managed to get it working by "create a backup" and then selecting the DVD drive as the save location, put a dvd in there and it put both the boot media and the image (which it created on the fly) on it...

thanks anyway!